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Fresh off covering 10 games in four days of the Southern Conference tournament in Asheville and seven games in 51 hours at the ACC tourney in Greensboro, the idea was to make March even more maddening.

Settle in front of the TV and in one day watch parts of 16 second-round games of the NCAA tournament, a 13-hour marathon from noon to 1:21 a.m., the longest Friday of my life. ...